“The day I boarded, the weather was unseasonably cold and rainy, which may explain why the double-decker bus, with open roof, carried only two people in addition to me. The passenger list was, in full, Ira and Phyllis Rosenkrantz, Bronx natives now residing in Rockland County,” Mr. Grimes wrote. “Though it might seem strange, I felt a crying need as the tour went on: more New York Post. And how about a few mob rubouts, or sex and drugs and rock ’n’ roll, the tabloid trifecta?”

Just like the News review!

“I was one of just seven suckers aboard the New York Post’s overpriced new Headlines Bus Tour on a recent afternoon.The much-touted tour of Manhattan that promises gore and sordidness for the premium price of $49 claims it is ‘not for the squeamish or faint of heart,'” Mr. Paddock wrote. Guess that attendance has dropped off since the News ran their review in March. “But all I got was a standard tour of familiar landmarks with references to a few past Post headlines thrown in.”

It’s nice to know that the News and the Times can agree on something (albeit with a different style of prose): the Post tour is boring and nobody is even going!